Aisle 04, FutureU Bookstore: Health and Well Being

Meaningful work is possible without good health, but much easier with it. There is much we can do to strengthen our bodies and improve our physical well being. Here are a few books from some of the wisest health guides we know.

Stretching: For Everyday Fitness and For Running, Tennis, Raquetball, Cycling, Swimming, Golf, and Other Sports by Bob Anderson. Paperback - 192 pages (March 1987) Shelter Pubns; ISBN: 0394738748. This book was first published in 1975 when fitness awareness was in its infancy. Stretching has since sold over two million copies in the USA and has been published in 24 foreign editions worldwide. Now after twenty-one years and with many other books on the market, it has become the most widely-used and recommended book on stretching and its popularity continues to grow each year. The reasons for this may be the book's simple, user-friendly organization, the easy to follow individual stretches and principles, the ample line drawings by Jean Anderson, and the need for every body to stretch.

Stretching: The Video by Bob Anderson. VHS Tape (April 1987) ISBN: 0960106634. This 57 minute video, based on the popular book Stretching, features author Bob Anderson and offers daily stretching with a simple, safe format. It is organized into six comfortably paced sections: a brief introduction, stretches for the neck and back, then legs and hips, followed by stretches for the feet and then arms and shoulders. The tape concludes with a 14 minute overall series of stretches that can be followed for everyday fitness or for a specific sport or activity.

Smart Exercise.
Smart Exercise: Burning Fat, Getting Fit by Covert Bailey. Paperback - 292 pages (January 1996) Houghton Mifflin Co (Pap); ISBN: 0395661145. Covert Bailey--author of four national bestsellers on fitness and the popular star of the PBS television series Covert Bailey's Fit or Fat, offers a feast of up-to-the-minute information and practical advice for those interested in lowering body fat and dramatically improving their over-all fitness and health. Helpful to anyone designing a fitness program, whether it's to lose a "spare tire" or train for a marathon.

The Wellness Book.
The Wellness Book: The comprehensive Guide to Maintaining Health and Treating Stress-Related Illness by Herbert Benson and Eileen M. Stuart. Paperback - 493 pages Reprint edition (October 1993) Fireside; ISBN: 0671797506. Herbert Benson is the author of the bestselling Relaxation Response. In this book, he combines relaxation techniques with other behavioral medicine approaches--such as stress management, exercise, and nutrition--to provide an accessible and complete guide for enhancing health and dealing with most illnesses. Includes how-to illustrations and case histories.

Faith-Based Fitness: The medical program that uses spiritual motivation to achieve maximum health and add years to your life by Kenneth H. Cooper. Faith-Based Fitness by Kenneth H. Cooper. Paperback - 256 pages (August 1997) Thomas Nelson; ISBN: 0785271376. Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper is the pioneering physician that played a major role in launching the aerobic exercise revolution in the 1970s. In this book, at once practical and inspirational, he gives detailed instructions for a regimen that integrates exercise, diet, and spiritual faith in a way that maximizes physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

The Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being: Exercise, Diet, Emotional Balance by Kenneth H. Cooper. Paperback Reissue edition (1985) Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0553346776. The bestselling author of Aerobics, The New Aerobics, and Running Without Fear presents a complete program for total well-being--physically, nutritionally, emotionally--that includes dozens of ways to stay fit, three weeks of nutritious menus, guidelines for the 22 components of a comprehensive medical exam, and more.

Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine by Larry Dossey. Paperback - 320 pages Reprint edition (February 1995) Harper San Francisco; ISBN: 0062502522. This book probes the links between medicine and the healing power of prayer. The fact that prayer heals has been known the world over for millennia, but it is a new concept to 20th century science, one confirmed by dozens of laboratory experiments that Dossey cites. Prayer can help with high blood pressure, asthma, heart attacks, headaches, and anxiety; moreover, it can alter enzyme activity, blood cell growth, and the germination of seeds. Dossey rejects the traditional Judeo-Christian notion of prayer as a relationship to a transcendental God, offering instead his own view of prayer as a "genuinely nonlocal event" directed to the "Absolute" in all things.

Tired All The Time.
Tired All The Time: How To Regain Your Lost Energy by Ronald L. Hoffman. Paperback Reprint edition (January 1996) Pocket Books; ISBN: 0671868128. Are you one of the millions of Americans who feel tired all the time? In this book, Dr. Ronald Hoffman shows you how to eliminate many of the causes of fatigue. Discover the twelve leading causes of persistent fatigue, including hormonal imbalance, masked depression, stress, sexual factors, allergies and chronic fatigue syndrome; how to assess the quality of your sleep; how to test your home for toxins that might be causing fatigue; and whether your diet is suited to your metabolism: nutrient therapy that works! Included are self-tests, checklists, actual patient histories, and more, including that latest research findings in the treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Tired All The Time presents cutting-edge alternative treatment, with an individual program of diet, exercise, relaxation, environmental awareness and hope, which will help you achieve high energy levels and glowing good health.

Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly by Dean Ornish. Mass Market Paperback - 464 pages Reprint edition (April 1997) Harper Mass Market Paperbacks; ISBN: 006109627X. A revolutionary lifestyle program, including two hundred gourmet recipes, helps patients reduce the risk of disease and take off weight while eating as much as they want when they want--of the right foods. A byproduct of Dr. Ornish's revolutionary diet and lifestyle program that reversed the effects of heart disease, this scientifically proven weight reduction plan includes 250 healthy, gourmet recipes created by some of America's most celebrated chefs. The revolutionary number one bestselling lifestyle and diet book shows readers how to eat better, live longer, and weigh less without deprivation. Including 250 delicious recipes, this book is the result of Dr, Ornish's scientifically validated program which was developed to treat heart patients. But this book is for anyone who wants to live longer and weigh less, without giving up wonderful food.

Meditation in the Zone: How To Turn Your Workout Into A High-Quality Meditation by Shinzen Young. Audio Cassette Cassette edition (September 1996) Sounds True; ISBN: 1564553922. The "zone" is an altered state of consciousness--a state of perfect focus, relaxation, and peak performance that top athletes enter in their finest moments. Meditation in the Zone teaches listeners how to combine easy-to-earn mindfulness practices with their exercise routines so they consistently achieve this peak state. 2 cassettes.

Eight Weeks to Optimum Health by Andrew Weil. Paperback - 276 pages Reissue edition (July 1998) Fawcett Books; ISBN: 0449000265. This book offers a complete eight-week program to improved health and well being by the author of the two best sellers Natural Health, Natural Medicine and Spontaneous Healing. Weil's admonitions are not always surprising--eat less fat and more whole grains; tone up your head and heart, as well as your waistline--but he presents them in an entertaining, understandable fashion. "Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living," he writes. The recommended regimen is comprehensive and holistic covering diet, vitamins, exercise, relaxation and mental techniques. Specific recommendations for older people, adolescents, parents with young children, and others are included as well as many good meal recipes.

TechnoStress.
TechnoStress: Coping With Technology @Work @Home @Play by Michelle M. Weil and Larry D. Rosen. Paperback - 239 pages (September 1997) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471177091. With nuance uncommon to books that teeter on the brink of "self-help," TechnoStress exposes technology's tightening grip on modern culture. Psychologists Weil and Rosen describe "technostress" as any negative impact on attitudes, thoughts, behaviors, or body physiology that is caused either directly or indirectly by technology. They also define "technosis" as the dissolution of human-technology boundaries, wherein humans begin thinking they should act and perform as quickly as their machines; for example, when humans start to believe that technology, such as ATMs, should always be available and is the only means to getting something done. More extreme cases of technosis occur when humans actually begin defining their personalities based on what brand or power of computer they own. TechnoStress successfully tempers the notion that technology makes everything fine and reminds us to not forget who's boss--and to always keep in mind that we are not here to meet the needs of our technology, technology is here to meet our needs.

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